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BUILDING RENOVATION PASSPORT

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Building Renovation Passport: the roadmap to a low-carbon

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By Jonathan Vołt. Building* Performance Instltut* Europa (BPIE)

thl* tash. as bulldktg* accounta for ENEMY RINOVATION* IM TM* EU: morę than one third of tha region* THE KMOWLEOGC BARRICR total COj-emissiona. Tha challenge Drastically radudng tha energy * arrpi ^r*d by tha compo*tt»on of naad of a building •* a compla* the hous>ng stock. wrhlch I* uttarty proca** In whłch many things d*verse. In term* of age. building can go wrong. and often da For compooenti and charact*H*tics, instanca. many homeownar* *aak design, haatlng system and souroa advtce from naighbour* and Menda etc. No i .»er buUat axlst* as no rather than from profeaatonala ot Single pian can ba applied to all    exl*ting energy advfce tool*

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Th* European Union'* c Proste and energy goals en taił a deep trancformatton of tha building stock. A rewiaw of Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) data reveal* that appro*imat*iy 97% ot all building* In tha EU must ba upgradad by 2060 to become futurę-proof. It would ba hard to overe*tknate tha Impoctance of

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BUILDING RENOVATION PASSPORT

Figuro 1: Building Renovation Passport - Overview of its components (Source: BPIE)

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INDIVIDUAL BUILDING ROAOMAP

U-adri*ed mrestmenta For the EU to tocrease rot just the ratę but also the quallty of energy renwation*. it a essentlal to oreroome the lach ot r diable knowledge about what to do. how to do * and In which order

THE BUILDING RŁNOVATION PASSPORT AS A SOLUTION

One instrument that a gaining morę attention is the BuikSng Renorabon Passport. which outłinee a custom-made long-term (up to 10 or 20 years) step-Cy-step nmwaUon roadmap for an indMdual house m many ways. it la an esotutlon of the EPC and builds on information from energy audts and diaiogues w«h the occupanta Diftorer* yarlationa of the dea haue recently been implemented in Flanders (Belgiom). Germany and France, and studied tor replicalion in the Horlzon 2020 project iBRoad, whose aim is to show how Bułding RenovaOon Passports can cupport tieep renosratlon In the residenoal sector.

THE BUILDING RENOVATION PASSPORT:FEATURES

The Building Renoration Passport is designed to become a uaeAjł resource for the bulding owner. with features and information presented in an understandabte mannę* One enample. which also worka as trigger for irrrestments. is the possatriity for the owner to easily absorb the enpected beneflts ot the renoration works.

The renoration roatSnap can be combined with a dgttal repem tury ot buildtog-related information (a logbook) on atpecu such aa the energy consumpoon and production. executed maintenance and building pUns The logbook ooutd also feature ather sets of information reUled to each indiridual building. such as the financlng opeons arailable to the areafor renorabon prejeets (eg. green loans, incentiwes. tan credits) as weU as energy biUs. equipment maintenance recommendationa and insiaance and property obigatons. its main feature is to make the proceet easier for ihe oocupanL but the logbook could polentułly also be used to crack renovabon aetwities and send alerts to the use*s to case of istusuai consumptlon patterns or suspioens of teehnical flaw*.

THE BUILDING RŁNOVATK>N PASSPORT IN PRACTICE

The most tonoraCve example of a logbook la the Wonlngpas m

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